Symantec Protection Center

Symantec Protection Center Overview

Symantec Protection Center unifies information security management across systems, networks and data to effectively protect against the inherent risks in today’s IT infrastructures. It helps organizations strengthen their security defenses by providing a cohesive view of enterprise security, improving incident response times and driving greater operational efficiencies.

Protection Center is available at no additional charge as part of Endpoint Protection and Protection Suite Enterprise Edition products.

Symantec™ Protection Center unifies information security management across systems, networks, and data to effectively protect against the inherent risks in today’s IT infrastructures. It helps organizations strengthen their security defenses by providing a cohesive view of enterprise security, improving incident response times, and driving greater operational efficiencies.

Through Symantec Protection Center’s single Web console, organizations can reduce the complexity in managing a diverse security infrastructure while gaining visibility across the threat landscape. With real-time access to Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network, security teams are supported by the largest security threat database for real-time risk detection. Symantec Protection Center enables automated processes that shorten the time from threat identification to remediation through repeatable and coordinated response actions.

Centralized access to policy management

Symantec Protection Center provides the flexibility for any administrator to manage their specific security responsibilities from anywhere in the world. It allows administrators to quickly and easily log into one central Web console to manage multiple security products while benefiting from a single sign-on experience. Administrators can view overall status details and product dashboards, as well as run specific reports. To accommodate organizations with different security teams, Symantec Protection Center supports multiple user accounts and provides role-based access across the security landscape.

End-to-end visibility

Due to the proliferation of individual security products and organizational silos, enterprises often lack a holistic view of their security infrastructure to understand active threats, vulnerabilities, and risks to confidential data. Symantec Protection Center helps organizations visualize overall status and reduce security gaps with consolidated, realtime access to threat, security, and operational dashboards. In addition to centralized “at a glance” views, Symantec Protection Center also includes access to detailed reports for deeper analysis.

Proactive security response

Process inefficiencies often compromise security by prolonging remediation actions and adding unnecessary costs, resources, and time. Symantec Protection Center enables smart drag and drop workflow capabilities that decrease exposure to targeted threats. Organizations can turn their documented internal policies into repeatable, predictable automation routines utilizing Symantec technologies and 3rd party products. Not only are incident response times significantly reduced, but cross-department communications are streamlined and proper change controls are documented to satisfy compliance requirements.

Unrivaled intelligence

Backed by more than 25 years of experience and Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network, Symantec Protection Center encompasses the most extensive sources of Internet threat data in the world to offer comprehensive and up-to-date information. Leveraging the analysis of Symantec security experts, you can stay up to date about malware, phishing, spam, data leakage, and data theft—the entire spectrum of security concerns.

Complete protection

Symantec Protection Center provides single console management of Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition products. It integrates the following:

• Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Symantec Data Loss Prevention
• Symantec Critical System Protection
• Symantec Brightmail Gateway
• Symantec Web Gateway
• Symantec Network Access Control

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

Centralized Access to Policy Management

• One-click access to configuration policies across Symantec protection technologies with a single sign-on Web console

End-to-End Visibility

• Visualize security status and reduce security gaps with consolidated, real-time access to threat, security and operational dashboards
• Understand trends and isolate threats with detailed reports across systems, networks and data

Proactive Security Response

• Enables drag and drop smart workflow capabilities that decrease exposure to targeted threats

Unrivaled Intelligence

• Provides access to the most extensive source of Internet threat data in the world

Key Benefits:

Unified Management and Administration

• Includes a single sign on experience to reduce complexity
• Provides all the benefits of a single console without losing the flexibility of a separate administration console for individual products

Pinpoint Relevant Security Threats

• Easily monitor the infrastructure’s security posture by continually gathering data to help keep systems protected 24 hours a day
• Minimizes remediation times by rapidly identifying affected systems and the root cause

Accelerate Time to Protection

• Shortens the time from threat identification to remediation through automated actions

Increase Security Operations Productivity

• Extends administrative reach by bringing people, process, and information together
• Strengthens protection with real-time access to malware, phishing, spam, data leakage, and data theft information

System Requirements:

Based on Symantec Endpoint Protection Console requirements

Processor

• Note: Itanium is not supported
• Intel Pentium processor or compatible architecture (32-bit and 64-bit)

Windows Operating Systems

• Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server, Small Business Server with Service Pack 3 or later
• Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 or later
• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Storage Edition, Web Edition, Small Business Server
• Windows Vista (all x86 versions)
• Windows 7 (all x86 versions)
• Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Windows Web Server 2008 (R2 and all Service Packs supported)

64-bit systems

• Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 or later
• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Storage Edition, Web Edition, Small Business Server
• Windows Vista (all x64 versions)
• Windows 7 (all x64 versions)
• Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Windows Web Server 2008 (R2 and all Service Packs supported)
• Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard Edition/Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Premium Edition(R2 and all Service Packs supported)
• Windows Small Business Server 2008, Standard Edition, Premium Edition (R2 and all Service Packs supported)

Hardware

• 32-bit systems: 1 GB RAM (2-4 GB recommended)
• 64-bit systems: 1 GB RAM (2-4 GB recommended); 4 GB RAM minimum for all editions of Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008
• 15 MB on the hard disk

Screenshots:

Consolidated Dashboard
Symantec Protection Center’s consolidated dashboards display key details to help security professionals understand the current threat landscape.

Single Sign-On
Symantec Protection Center provides a single sign on experience to reduce complexity.

Detailed Reporting
Understand trends and isolate threats with detailed reports across systems, networks and data

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Protection Center Datasheet (PDF).